I find the Video quality adjustments in MOD3 (from mod1 Kaliningrad) a little too aggressive for my taste (colours are a little more vivid, which might be good in some cases).
It coul be really interesting if it is possible to have one fw with let's say 2-3 colour scenarios and select them from the menu. This way you could get some vivid footage directly with no post processing needed (e.g. MOD3) or some more flat video for further processing with a single choice.

Also the bitrates on "S.Fine" are very high for my micro SD to handle it so I have to select "Fine" which is a little lower than other high bitrate versions...

Nutsey, is it possible to also have a U72 MOD2 version?
If yes, I will test it within this week.

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Hi nutsey,
thank you very much for your great work on the firmware. I have installed U72 MOD3 and want to report a few impressions.
When I switch on raw picture mode in the menu I cannot convert the raw files with raw2dng_en.exe. It displays “FireFly (S Error: unsupported format”.
Could you please reduce sharpness, contrast and saturation on 1080p50fps and 1080p100fps?
I will carry on testing and report here.
Best wishes!

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Another issue with U72 MOD3: Sadly the photo function is not usable with my camera. In light parts of the photo I get strange colours. I have checked with all settings for image size, quality, metering, ISO settings, and also lowering EV. In ever image I get the same strange colour artefacts. These artefacts are not visible when using original U72 firmware.

Last edited by JoeTrout; 03-06-2018, 07:39 AM.
Reason: Problem solved! After switching back to regular U72 firmware and then re-installing MOD U2 there are no more colour artefacts. Problem with opening RAWs remains!

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One problem solved! After switching back to regular U72 firmware and then re-installing MOD U72 there are no more colour artefacts - strange. But the problem with not being able to convert RAWs remains!
I have done some sharpness corrections in Davinci Resolve for 4k footage shot with MOD U72 and compared it to footage shot with original U72 firmware. It looks so much better with Resolve editing!
I would be realy great to have the video settings for 1080p resolution as it is currently for the 4K resolution. Maybe have it like this for the sharpness setting "normal" and when setting sharpness to "strong" use the current settings? Nutsey, do you think this is possible?

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Flat color mode could be good. Also there is another idea: Is it hard to make exposure change every frame? 60 fps -> 1 frame is dark, next frame is bright. Then we overlay 2 frames over each other (on PC) and get 30fps footage with more details (something similar to raw). This trick is implemented in Magic Lantern firmware for Canon.